Netinstall for Wheezy on Beagleboard xM

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Hi all.
I am trying to use Netinstall script, provided here https://github.com/RobertCNelson/netinstall ( Thanks to you, mr Robert C. Nelson, for the great job!).
I managed to run just fine the installer but, when I am supposed to select a disk for install, I get “no disk available”. Don’t know if I am getting something wrong here, but i wish I could create a SD card for my architecture with a bootable Debian wheezy.
Up to the disk selection, everything run smoothly.
What am I getting wrong?

Thanks!
Paulo Sherring.

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Very odd, as you need the disk to load the debian-installer... What
brand/type of microSD card are you using? With the current v3.17.x
some sandisk's mmc have been failing for me.

First try a different microSD, otherwise pass "--use-beta-kernel"
which will pull in v3.18.x instead. (we will be migrating to v3.18.x
pretty quickly..)

Regards,

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I am using a 4 GB, Kingston, uSD card, shipped with my hardware. I have avoided sandisk, as I have got myself a few issues with the brand. I just bought another 2 cards, testing now with those.
By the way, after running netinstall script, am I supposed to get a single partition? Because I am only getting boot partition, with about 48 MB.

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That is correct, it only creates an initial 48Mb partition with all
the files required to run the "debian-installer" during the partition
sequence, the debian-installer will be default create an ext4 and swap
partitions. Where the final rootfs will be stored.

Regards,

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Hooray! It worked with a new mmc! Apparently, my older kingston mmc, shipped with bbxM, is dead, or something of this sort.
Thanks, again and again!
I have another question, not regarding Netinstall. (should i get a new topic on it?)
When trying to boot to your prebuilt image of debian - console, provided here

[https://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/wheezy/debian-7.7-console-armhf-2014-10-29.tar.xz ](https://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/wheezy/debian-7.7-console-armhf-2014-10-29.tar.xz)

I got the following: [http://pastebin.com/106D6g0A](http://pastebin.com/106D6g0A)

Any thoughts on that?

Regards,
Paulo Sherring.
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Loading, please wait...
[ 5.081909] mmc0: card never left busy state
[ 5.086395] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card

This ^ is probably what was happening in the NetInstall... v3.17.x is
very picky about mmc cards..

Regards,

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So, now i am set up. Is some place where I can find information about the image built? Like dot-config of kernel, headers and such?

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Header are in the repo:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

full source can be download via:

git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
cd ./linux-stable-rcn-ee
git checkout `uname -r` -b tmp

.config = rcn-ee_defconfig

Regards,

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Thank you so very much!

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Hi all.
I am trying to use Netinstall script, provided here
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/netinstall ( Thanks to you, mr Robert C.
Nelson, for the great job!).
I managed to run just fine the installer but, when I am supposed to select a
disk for install, I get “no disk available”. Don’t know if I am getting
something wrong here, but i wish I could create a SD card for my
architecture with a bootable Debian wheezy.
Up to the disk selection, everything run smoothly.
What am I getting wrong?

Very odd, as you need the disk to load the debian-installer… What
brand/type of microSD card are you using? With the current v3.17.x
some sandisk’s mmc have been failing for me.

Thanks for helping. I was having same exact problem
and this thread saved my day. You rock.